- From: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:11:23 +0000
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently going through all the references in RFC2616, trying to
> decide whether they are normative or informative (a distinction that
> wasn't made when RFC2616 was published, but which is required nowadays).
>
> The reference to RFC1123 ("Requirements for Internet Hosts --
> Communication Layers") is a case where I find myself disagreeing with
> the classification made by Jim Gettys in
> draft-gettys-http-v11-spec-rev-00.
>
> RFC2616 cites RFC1123 for
>
> (1) the definition of the rfc1123-date format, and
>
> (2) the definition of "mailbox"; as used in the "From" header.
>
> For (1), it's IMHO just an informative reference, as RFC2616 really
> uses only a subset of the RFC1123 format, and has it's own ABNF
> definition for it.
>
> For (2), RFC2616bis should cite RFC2822, Section 3.4 instead.
This seems correct.
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